The new Apple Maps features borrow a lot from Google Maps
There were some familiar highlights in display when the new Apple Maps version was reported at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2021. Any individual who’s used its main rival (Google Maps) knows where the iPhone-maker got its motivation.
Apple Maps, particularly the iPhone application form, will get a major upgrade with iOS 15’s launch this fall. The new search for Maps originally appeared last year with iOS 14 and is currently extending from the U.S., UK, Ireland, and Canada to Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar. Not long from now the new guide will be in Australia and Italy.
There will be more data in more places with more clear bicycle paths and people on foot, intersections, just as new lettering and markings for various statures and ocean highlights, augmented reality walkway portrayals in certain urban areas for iPhone clients, super high resolution 3D designs in select urban communities, and better travel getting ready for Car and travel.
The thing is, a lot of these improvements come after the Google Maps app offered them for Android and iPhone users.
The iOS 15 features Google Maps users will recognize
AR walking directions
In the fall, you’ll have the option to add a layer of augmented reality with arrows and direction when you hold up your mobile phone in walking mode on Apple Maps. This may be accessible in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and London before the year’s over. Google added this to its maps in 2019, just like the new Apple’s version. It uses the camera to identify your location. And then adds it to your screen. Google calls it the Live View. And this gets updated over the years.
More transit info
Apple is giving plenty of screen time to bus routes in the new operating system. Train and Subway systems were more prominent but major bus lines will be displayed. This seems like an exact copy of a Google Maps but Google transit has been clearer as compared to Apple’s for years. Apple is still catching up on Google!
New Icon
The maps icon has a subtle and new logo with detailed view of roads and terrains. Apple also designed more colours and rounded the edges a bit more. The 280 freeway sign is no longer is on the icon.
During the presentation, Apple focused on how much they prioritize security. Maybe copy the Google Maps Incognito mode feature this time.
Global websites down including Cloudflare and Pinterest after an outage at Cloud company ‘Fastly’
Global websites down after outage at Cloud Fastly
Multiple outages hit social media, government, and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at U.S.-based cloud computing services provider ‘Fastly.’ Fastly said it was investigating “the potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” according to its website. Most of Fastly’s coverage areas were facing “Degraded Performance”, the website showed.
Separately, Amazon, Reddit, Guardian, also seemed to be down. Amazon was not immediately available to comment. Down Detector website also shows complaints from multiple users,
Cloudflare
Cloudflare reports problems in the last 24 hours as their server was down. Cloudflare, Inc. is an American web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain name server services.
Social media app Twitter in also included in global websites down. Twitter also down reports 100% problems from the users over DownDetector.
Mega
Mega or Mega.io which is a cloud storage and file hosting service offered by Mega Limited, is also reportedly down and issues were reported on the website.
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Pinterest which is an American image sharing and social media service that enables saving and discovery of information on the internet using images and, on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos, in the form of pinboards is also down. Users reported problems in both logging in and on website loading.
Quora
Quora is also reporting problems for hours now. Downdetector reports 83% problems on the website and 16% in login. Quora is an American question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, followed, and edited by Internet users, either factually or in the form of opinions.
The Press Gazette also tweets about the Global websites down, the tweet reads,
Fastly is currently resolving the issues and fixing the service.
Tech Tuesday Startup of the Week: Tajir
It is good to say that B2B commercial marketplace is the eventual fate of the world. Being an online platform, which is operated between buyers and sellers, that opens to purchasers and dealers in a specific industry is what the world has been witnessing. From 2019 when Covid began to spread, B2B commercial setup flourished. We have seen Bazaar, Retailo, and Dastgyr with comparable points and this online cycle works easily. Your platform is freely run online between a buyer and a seller. Purchasers and dealers can enroll themselves in it and market their products according to the demand. A startup that means to change retail supply chains in the area with a tech-empowered distribution marketplace that is Tajir.
Tajir
Tajir is founded in 2018 by brother Babar and Ismail Khan. It sells inventory to Kiryana stores locally in Pakistan through its mobile app. This startup serves retailers in Lahore and some parts of Central Punjab, and has over 1,000 SKUs including soft drinks, hair products, biscuits and snacks, and food staples like rice, flour, and wheat, on its application. With the latest funds, it plans to expand to Pakistan’s largest city Karachi as well.
Shop from the Tajir application
Through Tajir’s application, the storeowners order inventory whenever they want with just a click. They can also receive on-demand delivery, enjoy transparent and competitive prices, and choose from the largest selection of products available online.
24/7 ordering and next day delivery
Tajir is trusted by more than 100 multinational and local brands and all are available on the application. With Tajir you don’t have to wait for a salesman. Stores can order whenever they like and with their next-day delivery option, the process of delivery gets smooth and hassle-free.
Tajir raises $17million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins
B2B e-commerce marketplace Tajir raised $17 million in a Series A round led by one of the leading American VC firms Kleiner Perkins. It is the first investment by the American VC in a Pakistani startup. Furthermore, the round also included the participation of Y Combinator Continuity Fund, AAVCF, Fatima Gobi Ventures, Flexport, Golden Gate Ventures, Liberty City Ventures, VentureSouq, and angel investors including Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen and Figma CEO Dylan Field.
Indeed, the tech-empowered startup is gaining recognition in the country mostly through social endorsement from existing partners. The startup also maintains a sales team to educate more store owners about their platform.
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Lastly, Tajir doesn’t have any significant contender currently, which is uplifting news. Babar and Ismail are the founders who have made this level of entrepreneurship possible in the country. From multiple points of view, their prosperity will decide the impression of the Pakistani market to financial backers around the world.
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SpaceX signs blockbuster deal to send space tourists to the ISS
SpaceX and Axiom Space sign blockbuster deal!
NASA declared that International Space Station will open to a commercial business in 2019. And now this news is becoming a reality as on Wednesday 2nd June 2021 space tourism company Axiom Space signs a blockbuster deal with Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX. That will send private tourist crews to the ISS through 2023.
Axiom and SpaceX already had a deal in placefor a Dragon spacecraft flight with three private citizens and former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria in early 2022. The new agreement expands the scope to a total of four flights.
Additionally, Axiom had been arranging different private missions, yet the declaration ties the two organizations all the more firmly together as space tourism industry endeavors increase “A new era in human spaceflight is here,” said President and COO Gwynne Shotwell in an Axiom statement.
Crew Dragon
Furthermore, SpaceX has demonstrated the abilities of its Crew Dragon case through NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The organization has effectively launched three succesful missions with proficient space astronauts on board.
The Axiom missions will also involve private crews. The previously announced first mission — which has NASA approval to launch no earlier than January 2022 — comes with a reported $55 million price tag per seat.
“All four crews will receive combined commercial astronaut training from NASA and SpaceX, with SpaceX providing training on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, emergency preparedness training, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, as well as partial and full simulations,” said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Moreover, Axiom has greater thoughts than simply visiting the ISS. The Axiom Station is an arranged exclusive space station that would begin life as a connection to the ISS in 2024 and afterward detach and work all alone by 2028. It could turn into a definitive space vacation destination.
Tech Tuesday Startup of the Week: Remotebase
Homebased jobs have become evidently a smart option especially during the pandemic where people got laid off on a large scale. The fact remains undeniable that a home-based job is the new future.
Similarly, Remotebase is another startup that features and elevates the same idea. And make people settled on their jobs remotely while being associated with Silicon Valley – the tech hub of the world.
Remotebase
Remotebase is a platform that enables new businesses (in Silicon Valley) to build remote engineering teams in as little as 24 hours. It is a brainchild of Qasim Asad Salam and Talha Masood. The Pakistani startup recruits, prepares, trains, and puts local software engineers and programmers in the US startups. The idea might not have reverberated with both the engineers and startups a year prior yet with remote work turning out to be standard during the pandemic. Remotebase has been seeing predictable development since its launch in April a year ago.
How does Remotebase work?
The start-ups that work with Remotebase appreciate admittance to top engineers right away so they don’t need much effort to add engineering resources – through hiring – to their existing teams or building new ones from the scratch. Remotebase charges new companies a fixed month-to-month pay for each engineer and they do all the hard work. They recruit an engineer through its foundation which is less expensive than employing a comparative asset in the United States.
How Remotebase processes?
Easy configuration
You can simply configure your team within 5 minutes. You can go to their website customize your entire team according to your desired skillset like React, Node, Native, Python etc.
24 hour fastest team assembling
Furthermore, the entire engineering team gets assembled within 24 hours, so you can start working with them almost immediately.
2 week no-risk trial
Moreover, you can try the assembled team for a 2 week trial with no risk at all.
Remotebase raised $1.4m seed funding
This startup has raised $1.4 million in a seed round. The round was led by Pakistan-focused VC Indus Valley Capital. Draper Associates, the VC firm of Tim Draper. US-based early-stage VC Hustle Fund, and some other investors also participated in the round. It is the first investment for both Draper Associates and Hustle Fund in a Pakistani startup.
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The Founder of Remotebase Qasim says that Pakistan does not lack talent at all, it only lacks in getting access and opportunities to innovative companies and our company is making sure that those talented people can have access to information and equal opportunities.
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Google Photos is ending unlimited free storage
Google Photos ending unlimited free storage option
Google Photos will end its limitless free storage strategy for photographs and videos one week from now. After June 1, any new photographs and recordings you transfer will check toward the free 15GB of capacity that accompanies each Google account. In any case, don’t stress. Any photographs or recordings you’ve transferred before that day will not be important for the cap. Furthermore, Google has added another free instrument to assist you with dealing with your capacity amount.
The move, first announced in November, is meant to encourage people to sign up for Google’s storage subscription service, Google One. Google One plans start at $2 a month in the US for 100GB of storage and other features, like Google Store discounts.
What you can do?
Well, make sure your existing photos and videos are backed up in Google Photos before the Tuesday deadline since those will be considered free and exempt from the storage limit. You can check your backup quality in the Photos app by going to Settings > Backup & Sync.
When the change produces results, over 80% of current Google Photos clients should in any case have the option to store around three years of material with that free 15GB. Google will advise you in the application and by email once you draw near to hitting your 15GB breaking point. You can likewise track down a customized gauge for how long your free storage may keep going, in view of how every now and again you back up photographs and recordings to your Google Account.
In May, Google added another device in the Photos application to assist you with dealing with the photographs and recordings you’ve supported up that count toward your 15GB storage standard. It will surface photographs or recordings that you should erase, as photographs that are blurred or screen captures, or recordings that are huge, to all the more likely deal with the capacity you have.
More than 4 trillion photos are stored in Google Photos, the company said in November, “28 billion new photos and videos uploaded each week.” In May, Google also unveiled new Photos features including the ability to remove photos from your Memories and new AI-powered techniques to make your photos come alive.
Google Photos will end its limitless free storage strategy for photographs and videos from 1st June 2021.
WhatsApp launches sticker pack in conversations
Now WhatsApp will make people laugh!
After the recent release of many new stickers toward the start of the month and a mission to battle discrimination oppression against Asians, WhatsApp will launch a bundle of stickers pointed toward to light up your day.
The fun sticker pack
The set called Laugh It Off (Laugh at that, in free interpretation) ought to show up around the world in the sticker store of the application on iOS and Android. The figurines show individuals, creatures, and plants chuckling a ton, some even cry with giggling.
This seems more like a platform to encourage people to be more casual and have more fun, share more laughter and be well with themselves. Amid pandemic, many people have experienced strong psychological effects from social detachment, so the concern with mental health has been a constant.
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A report printed on the website WABetaInfo stated that the messaging app has already submitted the sticker pack within the Sticker Retailer for Android and iOS customers.
“WhatsApp has rolled out this sticker pack some minutes in the past for all variations on WhatsApp for Android and iOS, and it’d take some time earlier than showing in your WhatsApp account,” stated the web site that retains an in depth eye on information associated to WhatsApp.
Is it available now?
The new set is delivered for all renditions of WhatsApp currently. And it isn’t important to refresh the application to obtain entrance. In any case, the accessibility happens continuously, so it can take some time before everybody can download the new stickers. It is an easy process you just click through the link and download the 2.9mb file and voila. You got yourself a pack of laughter! Enjoy the changes and share some laughs with your friends and family.
If you have downloaded it, share your experience in the comments.
Tech Tuesday Startup of the Week: OkayKer
Sometimes there are days when you know you have to take your car to the mechanic and get it cleaned up or get a service. But some days you despite knowing that you have to go to the car services but you don’t want to. To solve this lazy problem. The startup OkayKer exists. Let us find out about it more.
OkayKer
OkayKer is a Karachi-based startup by Hasnain Akber and Nashit Iqbal. Nashit has been a part of the automotive trading business since his graduation. He had his own logistics service called Delivery Chacha which was later sold Careem. They had a vision of making car services easy for consumers. So he came up with the idea of OkayKer. Where you enjoy car repair and maintenance services right at your doorstep.
This startup has a full-service auto repair shop without the shop. The extremely talented team service all types of cars and trucks – they know it all. This startup offers everything from oil changes and tune ups to brake jobs and no-starts.
Car repair on demand
With this feature you can easily call and ask for an appointment according to your car needs and receive a fast and transparent price quotation.
OkayKer anywhere
The team is efficient and spot on. You can make an appointment and they will come anywhere you want. Either your home or your office. Weekends or late evenings. The hassle-free mobile car mechanics make sure that your car will get the proper attention and care it needs.
Services
OkayKer offers plenty of services for the people that includes,
- Engine Maintenance and Tuning – So your car would stay in regular shape and prime condition.
- Body Repair – No more visits to spare parts markets, they got you covered with everything on doorstep.
- Engine Repair – from diagnosis to repair, they will fix any issues of your car.
- Car Cleaning and Detailing – Your vehicle deserves to shine and OkayKer is gonna leave it sparkly clean.
- Air Conditioning service/Maintenance – Beat the heat with OkayKer and get your air conditioners maintained.
- Electrical Diagnosis and Repair – From minor basic faults to EFI malfunction the talented mechanics will scan your car and provide detailed description and repair of error codes.
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The prices are extremely pocket friendly for the services OkayKer is promising to offer. People had no idea in the past that they will have their car repaired in the garages, and not wait outside the mechanic’s shop for hours just to get a wire fixed. Thank you OkayKer!
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Book Review: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now is one of those uncommon books by Eckhart Tolle which needs to be read once more. The book is an assortment of experimentations, thoughts, considerations and exercises for that I am truly friendly to audit. The book is, in any case, a manual for profound illumination which is relevantly and with incredible habits.
The author – Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment was written by Eckhart Tolle, a German-born author. In 2008, a New York Times writer called him “the most popular spiritual author in the United States.
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The Book in review – The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The book ‘The Power of Now’ has been composed by Eckhart Tolle, distributed by Hodder Australia in the year 2004. It comprises of 235 pages and is divided into ten parts, which depend on mind, cognizance, otherworldly edification, mind procedures, condition of essence, internal body, illuminated connections, joy, and harmony, which means of giving up individually. Tolle utilized straightforward question-answer examples to come to various ideas and end results. Neutral phrasing has been utilized by him for a simple arrangement. The book is composed obviously with a message that there is an exit from anguish, trouble and to go into harmony and amicable life.
It also reveals,
- There is no such thing as time (we made it up).
- The Past and Future don’t happen, It is always Now.
- If you can stop thinking about the past and the future and be present in the Now you will feel better.
Death out of fear
Tragic to say that a significant number of us neglect to live in the current minutes and consistently will in general lament the past and make progress toward progress and fortune later on. Consequently, the author said, that the mystery of life is to “die before you die”, and find that there is no actual death.
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There is no tomorrow
If there is a moment of happiness, that is only in this time. Oh well in our lives, individuals appear to be living before or in the fantasies which have no reality when you don’t have anything to do in the present. No one rejects that we generally leave the present work for later. Nonetheless, we realize that there is no tomorrow except for a few of us try not to comprehend the worth of now.
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Just through getting to the force of Now, which is your own force, can there be genuine forgiving. This delivers the past, feeble. And you understand profoundly that nothing you could possibly do or that was at any point done to you could contact even in the smallest the brilliant pith of what your identity is. The entire idea of forgiveness then gets unnecessary.
FAQ
Eckhart Tolle is a self-help author and spiritual teacher from Germany who is best known for his books The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. His debut book, The Power of Now, hit the New York Times Best Seller list in 2000 after being suggested by Oprah Winfrey.
An article in The New York Times stated that Tolle is “not identified with any religion, but uses teachings from Zen Buddhism, Sufism, Hinduism and the Bible.”
In honor of the German spiritual leader Meister Eckhart, he changed his name to Eckhart. Between the ages of 13 and 22, he avoided all types of official schooling, preferring instead to follow his own artistic and intellectual pursuits.
Eckhart points us to the source of genuine happiness in life, which we may uncover when we reach a conscious present and let go of the need to think.
The Facebook rating has dropped from 4.0 to 2.5 on Google Playstore
Facebook ratings dropped to 2.5 on Google Playstore!
Facebook ratings have significantly dropped on Google Play and App stores amid days of Israeli airstrikes targeting innocent Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. People have been talking about this all over the globe now. How the Israeli atrocities are questioning the Human Rights violations all at once.
People are also accusing Facebook of supporting Israel and its occupation of Palestinian territories and have called for a boycott of the social media giant over what they call its biased policy on the Palestine issue. Many complained that Facebook has deleted their shared content. Some complained that their content on Instagram has been banned. Meanwhile, some said it suspended their accounts for sharing such content.
The current rating of Facebook on Google Playstore
The Facebook application currently has a rating of 2.5 on the Google Play store. On Apple’s App store, the web-based media giant has a rating of 2.4. It has dropped from 4.5 in the course of recent days. Individuals rate cell phone applications on these stores dependent on their presentation and administration services. The web-based media giant experienced harsh criticism for giving fake 76 million “likes” to a page named ‘Jerusalem Prayer Team’ without consent. The page intended to blue-pencil the Palestinian story.
The social media platform apparently gave likes to the page from the profiles of people who were not aware of its existence. The decline in Facebook ratings comes amid continuing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. At least 213 Palestinians, including 61 children, have been killed in the attacks.
The app store shows over 5,000,000,000+ installs and 115,640,972 feedback currently. This huge number shows ratings of 2.6 as people are reported giving only ‘1 star’ on different social media forums claiming unfair justice and clear inequality.
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Muslims all around the world are supporting their Palestinian brothers and sisters and marching for them in solidarity for their own land.